[NatureGirl]

He may well have seen nothing, he's the bartender he was working.

Very true. I waitressed, years ago, in a restaurant that became "a bar" at night. On a busy Friday, even during the day sometimes, it would be so busy that there'd be no way a bartender could keep track of customers that weren't right in front of him/her.

Perhaps the bartender is just referring to the time period when BVD and DW were at the bar. If I remember the PH correctly, BVD said they started out at the bar, and moved to the pool tables later. So it's quite possible that BVD didn't seem that drunk to him, if he saw her earlier in the evening.

Then again, she could have a high tolerance for alcohol, and her memory lapses could be attributed to the pot she had smoked out in the parking lot.

[Mrs.Liberty]

Ditto. Feldman got him to say that it was a very busy Friday night and he was only one of two bartenders working, so it was possible he did not see everything.

[MizSterious]

And remember the Red Bull--high-energy drink, supposedly. There used to be a saying about drinking coffee to sober up--makes someone a "wide-awake drunk."